3: Everything You Need to Know About Minerals for Your Child's Health | Nina Marie
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
5 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Master your minerals. Harmonize your hormones. Start your mineral journey here.
What if the root of your child’s health struggles isn’t another cream, pill, or quick fix, but something much deeper?
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Nina Marie Rueda, a naturopath who works with children and families through a functional, integrative lens. Her own journey started during her first pregnancy, when she realized how little she’d supported her body and baby with nutrition. This pregnancy completely changed her perspective, and she went from wanting to become a university professor to birth work, nutrition training, and eventually naturopathy.
We get into why minerals matter so much for kids, especially when it comes to challenges like picky eating, eczema, and sleep struggles. Dr. Nina explains how testing works, why hair analysis often gives a clearer picture than blood work for children, and what common mineral patterns she sees in practice. The conversation is raw, practical, and full of insights for parents trying to make sense of their kids’ health struggles without getting lost in overwhelm.
You’ll Learn:
- How a Bradley Method class shifted Dr. Nina’s path to naturopathy
- What minerals actually do in kids’ bodies and why they’re essential
- The link between taste buds, zinc, and picky eating
- Why hair mineral tests show the long game while blood work is a snapshot
- Common mineral patterns seen in children with eczema
- How heavy metals disrupt gut microbes and fuel skin issues
- The mineral imbalances behind sleep struggles in kids
- Why parents’ own mineral status affects mealtime stress
- The reason some kids’ multivitamins should avoid iron and copper
- How minerals shape digestion, detox, and resilience in children
Timestamps:
[00:00] Introduction
[05:47] Why minerals are the non-negotiable foundation for children’s health
[07:40] Hair testing versus blood work for understanding mineral balance in kids
[13:05] Why picky eating in kids often comes down to mineral imbalances and taste buds
[22:46] Eczema in kids and the role of mineral imbalances and heavy metals
[39:43] How mineral imbalances and heavy metals disrupt children’s sleep patterns
[45:22] Choosing the right multivitamins for kids and why avoiding copper and iron matters
[49:10] Making supplements part of daily family routines
Resources Mentioned:
Minerals & Gut Health Connection for Eczema Course | Website
Gut and Minerals Free Resource | Website
Picky Eaters Protocol | Website
Find more from Dr. Nina:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Think of minerals as a backstage crew at a concert. |
| 0:04.0 | They run the whole show in a child or in a person dealing with eczema or sleep struggles, ADHD, |
| 0:10.0 | picky eating, constipation. |
| 0:11.0 | Minerals are going to always be in the picture. |
| 0:14.0 | They're not a nice to have. It's a non-negotiable. |
| 0:17.0 | And contrary to popular opinion, you should be getting most of your minerals from food, not from adding electrolytes or mineral drops to water. |
| 0:24.3 | What do you see with the eczema issue? |
| 0:26.4 | And why do you think so many kids have eczema? |
| 0:28.4 | If I had a dollar for every time a kid with eczema had low zinc, I could buy the world new burkey filters. |
| 0:36.5 | The focus is often on the trial, which I'm not against that, but if you are incredibly dysregulated, your kid will be too. If you're stressed the whole time, you're making your kid eat their broccoli or steak or whatever, they're not going to use the nutrients as well as they could if this was an enjoyable relax time. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi, Nina. |
| 1:01.4 | Thank you for being here. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm so excited to finally have you on the podcast. |
| 1:05.3 | I feel like this has been a long time coming. |
| 1:09.6 | I have literally been in every course that Nina has ever offered. |
| 1:10.2 | I've done it. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm pretty sure. I look up to her so much as a mentor and just such a very bright light when it comes to children, their health, |
| 1:19.7 | and just like the holistic health space in general. I feel like there's not a lot of great |
| 1:22.7 | information out there when it comes to kids with an approach that I think is doable. So I'm so excited to have |
| 1:28.3 | you on. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. I'm really excited to be here. I have |
| 1:32.8 | followed along your journey for a very long time as well. So it's an honor, truly. So let's get into, |
| 1:38.6 | before we're going to talk about minerals and kids in this episode. We have a lot to cover, but I want to |
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